One of the definitions of integrity is “the state of being whole.” I think that is a perfect definition for it. I know personally that if I am out of integrity with myself or another person I feel as if I am disassociating from my soul and it is left outside my body...
Alison Blasko
2013: Who Do You Intend to Be? by Jason Levitt
Are you in integrity with yourself? It’s a key to living an unleashed life. People can see it in your eyes, hear it in your voice, and experience it through what you do and whom you choose to be. It shapes your choices, guides your relationships, and helps you sleep...
Healing With Acronyms: GUILT
Generate Understanding Initiate Living Truthfully Guilty pleasure. Guilt by association. Guilty conscious. Guilty verdict. Guilty as sin. Seems guilt is ubiquitous nowadays. Everywhere we turn someone is guilty of something. Guilt conjures images of...
Rebounding From the Curve Ball
Yep, mixed basketball and baseball analogy here. Whoddathunkit? Those who know me would say it fits. I love both sports and I grew up watching The Great One, Roberto Clemente, play. My first inspirational hero in life, Clemente was a great humanitarian as well as a...
Advice I’d Give My 16-Year-Old Self
A Facebook friend of mine recently requested suggestions with regard to advice and topics to impart to a group of teens he was soon to be addressing. Even though he himself is a watershed of information, he was asking for comments from others. Which got me thinking,...
Healing With Acronyms: BETRAYAL
Beyond Expended/Extolled/Experienced Turmoil Realization/Reality Always Yields Amazing Lessons/Leaps/Love Betrayal cuts to the core. It can even destroy our sense of trust in others, sense of trust in self. When we view betrayal as an attack upon self at...
How to Forgive Others Without Becoming a Personal Human Doormat
Last week I addresses WHY we need to forgive. But HOW do we this without being perceived as weak, or worse not only a push-over but a personal human doormat with a welcome sign on it inviting all to wipe their feet on us? To me, it depends on how we perceive the act...
Beating Betrayal—5 Reasons We Must Always Forgive and Why It’s Imperative
Betrayal cuts to the core of the human existence. It’s great artistic food for fodder and oft the keynote topic for blues and country singers alike, not to mention poets. BB King wails “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” with extra emphasis on the...
Healing With Acronyms: FEAR
Focus Energy Adjust Response Fear is a part of the human condition. Some (and I agree with respect to an emotional response) say fear is the opposite vibration of love. A lower vibration of the same energetic pulse that resonates love. In this respect fear is...
Healing With Acronyms: BAD
Begin Alternative Direction How many times do we hear others, a parent even, tell a child he is bad? Conversely, how many times do we hear a misbehaving toddler utter the mantra--bad boy.....bad... bad... bad boy? More oft than should occur. On both accounts. A...